Iris turns 40

Today is Oct 4th. Iris's original due date. She is 40 weeks old today (including in and out of Utero). Before she was born I kept hoping she would give us more time to prepare.  Now I can't imagine waiting the extra 12 days for her to arrive. The weekend was a little up and down for us and Iris. On Saturday night we were all relaxed enough to watch a movie. I even made it all the way through. ( I really enjoyed Blindside by the way. But I am a sucker for hard luck stories especially about football.)
Sunday we had Home Communion and Iris experienced her 1st Communion service. We had decided we were not ready for Iris to meet that many people. We want to give her a little more time. We had a great day and ended with some fun photos which you can see below.


Last night was a little more challenging. Iris decided to really break in her lungs. (Great timing since today was my 1st day back at work.) Iris seems to have a difficult time with gas pain. And since Alisa is the only one that can feed her it is generally my job to do the burping and diaper changing. That has mostly worked but last night I couldn't get her calm or quiet. I now know on some minuscule scale what it is like to see your child in pain. Well, actually I don't know how minuscule it is. Iris seems to think it hurts like hell because she can scream like a banshee. Fortunately we have Grammy JoJo for backup  and Alisa can nurse her when necessary. Iris's episodes are generally short lived and seem to be normal but it just hurts to see her so upset even for a short while. Alisa was great last night and took Iris for the whole night so I got a little more rest to make it through work today. Going back to work was hard. I like my job most of the time and right now my project load is actually pretty low stress. So it is not like I didn't want to go to work. I just didn't want to spend all day away from Alisa and Iris.
It was hard to focus. I can't imagine what it is like to leave for weeks at a time like many of my touring friends do. I am very thankful that I get to come home from work every night.





And for a peek at the nursery





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